Improvement in pessaries



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcEO ISRAEL STEALY, OF ORESTLINE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN PESSARIES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,733, dated June 19, 1866.

To all uhom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, ISRAEL STEALY, of Crestthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in `providing andconstructing a rubber globe (hollow)of from two to six inches in diameter when filled with air, with a pipe of the same material extendingfrom said globe from twelve to twenty inches, as thc case may require, and from one-fourth to one-half inch in diameter when filled with air. On the end of said pipe is a zinc tube, A, one and one-half inch long, with a valveV in the end, for the purpose of filling said globe with air and holding the same when tilled. About three inches from said tube A is another tube, B C, constructed of the same material, with a rubber bellows two inches in diameter whenV tilled with air, attached to said tube B G by a screw, for the purpose of lling said globe with air. Said globe on the end of said pipe is to be inserted under the womb when empty, then tilled with air by said bellows, in order to press upward against the womb to support it and to prevent weakness and pain therefrom, and to secure ease and comfort to the suffering patient, and when it is desired to let off the air the said bellows maybe unscrewed from the tube B O,and that will let the air pass out through the opening. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The application of a rubber globe under the womb, to be tilled with air after inserting the same, in order th at it may press upward against the womb to prevent falling, weakness, and

pain, and thereby give ease, comfort, and

strength to the suffering patient.

ISRAEL STEALY.

Witnesses HENRY MADDOX, HIRAM SLAcK. 

